DevOps Enabler & Co. seized an opportunity to implement SRE practices on the Public Cloud and deploy DevOps methodologies on complex products for a diverse range of offerings by a prominent Fintech firm. This collaboration revolutionized their operations and product development processes.
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Outcomes:
- Achieved near zero-touch deployments with error-free precision through end-to-end automation.
- Drastically reduced onboarding time for new clients from a week to a matter of minutes.
- Implemented a common process template across the entire organization, enhancing sprint visibility at the senior management level.
- Streamlined repository and branching management, resulting in increased efficiency and minimal merge conflicts and human errors.
- Complete implementation of CI/CD process, enabling easy testing of newly pushed code in live environments (Dev, QA, UAT) and reducing manual efforts for building, versioning, tracking, and deploying code.
- Accelerated development cycles, ensuring faster time-to-market for new features and enhancements.
- Improved overall software quality and stability through automated testing and deployment processes.
- Enhanced collaboration and coordination among development, testing, and operations teams.
- Mitigated the risk of human error through automated deployment procedures.
- Increased scalability and adaptability to meet evolving business needs and customer demands.
Challenges:
- Lack of a well-defined process template hampers standardization and consistency in workflows.
- Inefficient repository system poses difficulties in managing and organizing code.
- Absence of a consistent naming convention leads to confusion and inconsistency.
- Inadequate tagging practices make it challenging to identify and track code versions or components.
- Missing folder structure hinders easy navigation and access to code files.
- Inefficient branching strategy results in difficulties in managing code branches and merging changes.
- Absence of established branch and pull request (PR) policies leads to issues in code review and collaboration.
- Lack of continuous integration practices delays the identification and resolution of integration issues.
- Manual build process increases the risk of errors and slows down the release process.
- Inadequate automated testing hampers the ability to identify and resolve bugs efficiently.
- Lack of continuous deployment practices slow down the release process and limits responsiveness.
- Manual deployment procedures increase the chances of human error and inconsistent deployments.
Solution:
a) Creating Process Template:
Following the completion of the discovery phase, the DevOps team conducted a comprehensive analysis of the variations in Work Items across all products. Based on this analysis, they developed a robust Process Template that addresses the unique needs of each product. The template includes:
- Versioning: Establishing a standardized approach for managing and tracking different versions of code and artifacts.
- Naming Convention: Implementing consistent guidelines for naming files, resources, and components to ensure clarity and uniformity.
- Folder Structure: Defining a well-organized structure for organizing code files and related assets to facilitate easy navigation and access.
- Tagging: Introducing a tagging system to label and categorize code elements, enabling efficient search and filtering capabilities.
By implementing this Process Template, the organization can ensure consistency, efficiency, and streamlined workflows across all products, enhancing collaboration and accelerating development processes.
To effectively handle any hotfixes, the following process is implemented:
- Hotfix Branch Creation: When a hotfix is required, the senior developer creates a dedicated Hotfix branch from the master branch to isolate and address the issue.
- Developer Assignment: A developer is assigned to work on the hotfix, responsible for making the necessary code changes.
- Pull Request to Hotfix Branch: Once the development is completed, the developer raises a pull request (PR) to merge the hotfix changes into the Hotfix branch. The PR undergoes thorough checks, including code review, testing, and other quality assurance measures.
- Pull Request to Master: After passing all the necessary checks, another pull request is raised to merge the hotfix changes from the Hotfix branch into the master branch. This PR also undergoes extensive review and approval.
- Pre/Post-Deployment Checks: Once the pull request to the master branch is approved and merged, the code undergoes pre-deployment checks, including compatibility, integration, and regression testing. After successfully passing these checks, the hotfix is deployed into the client's environment.
By following this process, hotfixes are handled in a controlled and systematic manner, with stringent review and testing procedures in place to ensure code stability and minimize any disruptions to the client's environment.
Contact Information:
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- Email: sales@devopsenabler.com
- Address: #100, Varanasi Main Road, Bangalore 560036.